Regina Pekelmann Markus

Regina Pekelmann Markus is a professor and head of the Laboratory of Chronopharmacology at the department of physiology of the University of São Paulo's Institute of Biosciences. She received her Ph.D. in pharmacology in 1974 from the former Paulista Medicine School - today Federal University of São Paulo. Markus held several posts in Scientific Societies and in the government – National Secretary for Politics and Research and Development Programs at the Ministry of Science and Technology (2003), member of the Council and several positions in the Brazilian Society for Advancement of Science (SBPC), and the Brazilian Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (SBFTE), where she served as President (2006-2007). Markus is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Science (ABC) and executive director of the Academy of Science of São Paulo State (ACIESP, 2012-2015). In the last ten years she has looked for the molecular and cellular basis for a cross talk between the circadian system and innate immune response. This research has also been directed to the organismic level leading to the theory of the Immune-Pineal Axis.